Pelvis

Brian Price, once a wrecking ball on UCLA's defensive line, has beaten long odds to return to the NFL after two off-season surgeries aimed at keeping his hamstrings attached to his pelvis, rather than breaking loose and coiling down the backs of his thighs. For Price, who will start at defensive tackle Sunday for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, his excruciating recovery was a 10-step process. Meaning just two months ago, he could run only 10 steps. "You have these doubts in your head at times," said Price, a second-round pick of the Buccaneers in 2010 who, because of his congenitally malformed pelvis, spent the last half of his rookie season on injured reserve.

If you want your legs to look good from all angles, try this challenging lower-body sculptor. Called the triangle butt lift, it's a great way to tone your legs and abdominals at the same time, says fitness instructor Cassey Ho of the popular Blogilates YouTube channel and "Pop Pilates Total Body Workout" DVD. What it does This sweeping exercise tones your glutes as well as your inner and outer thighs while engaging your transverse abdominals...

If you want your legs to look good from all angles, try this challenging lower-body sculptor. Called the triangle butt lift, it's a great way to tone your legs and abdominals at the same time, says fitness instructor Cassey Ho of the popular Blogilates YouTube channel and "Pop Pilates Total Body Workout" DVD. What it does This sweeping exercise tones your glutes as well as your inner and outer thighs while engaging your transverse abdominals...

Brian Price, once a wrecking ball on UCLA's defensive line, has beaten long odds to return to the NFL after two off-season surgeries aimed at keeping his hamstrings attached to his pelvis, rather than breaking loose and coiling down the backs of his thighs. For Price, who will start at defensive tackle Sunday for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, his excruciating recovery was a 10-step process. Meaning just two months ago, he could run only 10 steps. "You have these doubts in your head at times," said Price, a second-round pick of the Buccaneers in 2010 who, because of his congenitally malformed pelvis, spent the last half of his rookie season on injured reserve.

If there must be an Elvis stamp, let it feature that bone of contention: his pelvis. AL HIX, Hollywood

The fossilized remains of two pregnant fish indicate that sex as we know it took place as much as 30 million years earlier than previously thought, researchers said Thursday in the journal Nature. Scientists studying 380-million-year-old fossils of the armored placoderm fish had thought the fish laid their eggs before fertilization. Then they realized the pelvis of male placoderms had a fin not seen on the female fish, and surmised it was probably used to grip its mate during fertilization, much as sharks do.

A 76-year-old Florida man has become the 134th fatality in the Aug. 2 crash of Delta Air Lines Flight 191 at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport, a hospital spokesman said Monday. Sidney Segal, of West Palm Beach, who had been treated for burns over 35% of his body and a fractured pelvis and clavicle, died at 10:45 p.m. Sunday, the spokesman said. His wife, Florence Segal, 76, was killed in the crash.

A 29-year-old Fullerton woman was in critical condition at UCI Medical Center late Saturday after her husband allegedly ran over her in the couple's car after an argument, police said. Police received reports about 2:15 a.m. Saturday of a woman screaming in the 2400 block of West Oak Avenue. When officers responded, they found Carmen Garcia lying in her driveway, Sgt. John Shell said. "It looked like she had been run over with a car," a police spokesman said. "She was in bad shape."

Shirley Muldowney, making a comeback after a near-fatal crash 19 months ago, qualified for today's finals in the Super Bowl of Drag Racing here at Firebird International Raceway. Muldowney, 45, posted the seventh-best time during Saturday's trials at 5.977 seconds with a trap speed of 236.220 m.p.h. "I wasn't nervous. I felt very comfortable," said Muldowney, a three-time world champion from Northridge, Calif. "I was a little worried about my reaction time, but my instincts took over.

With long arms, high shoulder blades and powerful fingers, the ancient creatures were built for climbing trees. But they also had long lower limbs, flat feet and a flexible lumbar spine that gave them a distinct evolutionary edge: They could cover long distances by walking upright on two legs. After four years of intense analysis, a team of paleoanthropologists is making its most detailed case yet that a pair of ancient skeletons discovered in a grassy South African valley could represent the direct evolutionary link between modern humans and the family of human ancestors that includes the Australopithecus known as Lucy.

Mahmoud Mohamed, an Egyptian protester profiled last month by The Times after he was seriously injured during the uprising that toppled President Hosni Mubarak, has died due to complications from his injuries, relatives said. Mohamed, 23, a shoemaker who lived with his family in Cairo, suffered a fractured skull, pelvis and legs and was blinded in one eye when he was attacked and run over by security forces during the protests in Tahrir Square on Jan. 28. He died June 27, relatives said.

An aerialist performing during a holiday show at the Beverly Center mall was injured and hospitalized after falling to the shopping center floor, authorities said Sunday. One witness said the performer appeared to fall about 40 feet -- from the third level of the shopping center to the first. The 26-year-old woman slipped while hanging upside down from a solid metal hoop suspended from the ceiling during the finale of the show "Hunky Santa and the Candy Cane Girls" Saturday evening, said Ray Pierce, owner of Hollywood Aerial Arts, the firm putting on the performance.

The fossilized remains of two pregnant fish indicate that sex as we know it took place as much as 30 million years earlier than previously thought, researchers said Thursday in the journal Nature. Scientists studying 380-million-year-old fossils of the armored placoderm fish had thought the fish laid their eggs before fertilization. Then they realized the pelvis of male placoderms had a fin not seen on the female fish, and surmised it was probably used to grip its mate during fertilization, much as sharks do.

Former First Lady Nancy Reagan broke her pelvis and has been admitted to the hospital, her spokeswoman said in a statement Wednesday morning. Reagan, 87, fell last week at her home in Los Angeles and went to the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center for tests Monday after "experiencing persistent pain," the statement said. Her recovery time is expected to last six to eight weeks, and will include physical therapy and a modified schedule.

When standing, we often make the mistake of tipping the top of the pelvis forward. Over time, this puts undue stress on the back. Practice this move to help you return your pelvis to neutral alignment and minimize the pooch below the navel. Make sure you pull your abs inward throughout the move without tightening your buttock muscles. Be sure that you are lowering your legs to only a 45-degree angle -- taking your legs too low will prevent you from doing the exercise correctly.

Indie film writer-director Allison Anders came up with the idea for a "Don't Knock the Rock Film and Musical Festival" while teaching a course on rock movies at UC Santa Barbara a few years back. "I saw how my students responded to my movies," says Anders, whose own films -- including "Border Radio," "Grace of My Heart" and "Sugar Town" -- have dealt with rock music. "I showed them 'Loving You,' 'Performance,' 'Two-Lane Blacktop,' " says Anders, who will teach the course again this fall.

When standing, we often make the mistake of tipping the top of the pelvis forward. Over time, this puts undue stress on the back. Practice this move to help you return your pelvis to neutral alignment and minimize the pooch below the navel. Make sure you pull your abs inward throughout the move without tightening your buttock muscles. Be sure that you are lowering your legs to only a 45-degree angle -- taking your legs too low will prevent you from doing the exercise correctly.

The Burbank City Council will be without one of its most controversial members for the next few weeks as Mary Lou Howard continues to recuperate from a fractured pelvis she suffered in a fall at her home Friday. Howard, 52, was still in St. Joseph Medical Center on Tuesday and said she did not expect to go home for a few days. She said she was in pain and was having some difficulty walking with crutches. "This is so crazy," she said by telephone. "I'm not feeling so well today.

Nine-month-old twins born fused from just below the rib cage to the pelvis and sharing a third leg were successfully separated by doctors Thursday morning in a 24-hour operation involving 50 doctors and nurses. Doctors at Childrens Hospital Los Angeles said the girls are doing well, though the operation required removal of the sisters' third nonfunctioning leg and use of the tissue to seal up their bellies. "There's no reason to think they will not survive or lead healthy lives," said James E.

It's tough living in a town where you can pretty much wear shorts year-round. Summer comes and everywhere else folks are pulling off the woolens, filling up the cedar chests, high on the smell of new mothballs and the stripped-down exultation of bare legs, bare arms, bare toes. For those who have bared so much for so long, all summer really means is that we'll have to take a sweater to work, and maybe some socks, because now they've got the AC set to polar. (Those missing icecaps?